We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

Well, that's true and one of the problems is, I personally don't think DeSantis is a particularly good candidate.

I don't think it is too much to ask that in the richest country in the history of the world, all of our children, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, get the quality childcare, early childhood education they need…

You want to have a kid in America, and you are working class, well, we are going to make you pay for that boy.

I think it is time we got our priorities right. And if we get our priorities right, we put children at the top of the list.

We cannot afford to allow that to happen.

We need a vision for the future, which understands that every family in America has the right to high quality, affordable childcare.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.

I don't think it is too much to ask that in the richest country in the history of the world, all of our children, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, get the quality childcare, early childhood education they need…

They need to raise a lot of money and get the press buzzing about how much money they raised.

We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.

We've got to fix this. And it's really caught up in the situation at the southern border.

We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.

The specter of doing anything that politically can be seen as winning or losing on the whole southern border situation gets in the way.

40 percent of parents in America have gone into debt due to the cost of childcare.

I always say that Vermont is held together with duct tape, twine, and hundreds of hours of volunteer service. The other thing that we know about Vermonters: They pay their bills. They also stay when you are in the midst of an emergency…

It is simply paying the bills that Republicans voted for last year and previous years. We're paying off our debt.